Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:19:08 +0100 (CET) | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Hardware Inventory [was: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?] |
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> I don't know. I asked the dietLibc people if they would be willing to > create a stripped down version of it and help port it to the remaining > archs that Linux supports, but dietLibc doesn't, and didn't hear > anything back.
That doesn't fill me with confidence. This thing will need maintainence after initial merge.
> It doesn't look like much work to do the stripping (I did a bunch of it > for the latest version of dietHotplug) but the porting, I have no idea > of what is needed there. > Anyone want to start up a klibc project? :)
That's not half a bad idea. If we want a _maintained_ libc for the kernel, having it maintained by kernel folks may make sense. There's nothing stopping us borrowing bits from dietlibc and friends after all.
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